Add yaml approach with schema validation

[Claude]

Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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[ilaflott]

@claude[agent] continue- yaml combination shouldn't be required anymore, the format implied by fremorizer/config.py should be enough.

[Claude]

@claude[agent] continue- yaml combination shouldn't be required anymore, the format implied by fremorizer/config.py should be enough.

Updated the implementation and documentation to clarify that YAML consolidation is not required. The native YAML loader is designed to work with the self-contained format generated by fremor config, and fre-cli fallback is only for backward compatibility with legacy workflows, not for multi-file consolidation features. Changes in commit 6c4d255.

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[ilaflott]

first:

forget validation for now

forget the schema for now

remove fre.yamltools completely as a soft requirement in cmor_yamler

then:

spin up a conda environment with fre-cli, and run the yaml combiner. save the inputs and outputs somewhere. then examine the output combined/resolved yaml, and compare it to the input model yaml, cmor yaml, and grids yaml.

you'll likely notice the combination method is much too complex for what fre cmor needed, and thus, is also too complex for fremor

finally:

we still want to target a model yaml, but we don't to arbitrarily combine elements of our cmor yaml with elements of the model yaml.

cmor_yamler should simply use model yaml to find the grids yaml and the cmor yaml, and append name/platform/target to the cmor yaml for pp directory resolution

[ilaflott]

don't use the old consolidate_yamls approach, in fact, completely remove it.

[Copilot]

Removed the consolidate_yamls approach completely in d6aa095. No fre.yamltools import, no consolidate_yamls call, no fallback. Replaced with load_model_yaml() which simply reads the model yaml to find paths to the cmor yaml and grids yaml, and appends name/platform/target for pp directory resolution.

[ilaflott]

@copilot

first:

forget validation for now

forget the schema for now

remove fre.yamltools completely as a soft requirement in cmor_yamler

then:

spin up a conda environment with fre-cli, and run the yaml combiner. save the inputs and outputs somewhere. then examine the output combined/resolved yaml, and compare it to the input model yaml, cmor yaml, and grids yaml.

you'll likely notice the combination method is much too complex for what fre cmor needed, and thus, is also too complex for fremor

finally:

we still want to target a model yaml, but we don't to arbitrarily combine elements of our cmor yaml with elements of the model yaml.

cmor_yamler should simply use model yaml to find the grids yaml and the cmor yaml, and append name/platform/target to the cmor yaml for pp directory resolution

[Copilot]

@copilot

first:
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Done in commit d6aa095:

1. Removed validation/schema entirely — deleted cmor_yaml_schema.py, cmor_yaml_consolidator.py, test_cmor_yaml_validation.py, YAML_SCHEMA_VALIDATION.md, example_cmor_config.yaml, and reverted the jsonschema dependency additions.

2. Removed fre.yamltools completely — no soft requirement, no import, no fallback.

3. Replaced consolidate_yamls with load_model_yaml() — reads the model yaml to find the experiment entry, extracts paths to the cmor yaml and grids yaml (relative to model yaml directory), concatenates them for YAML anchor resolution, and appends name/platform/target to the cmor dict for pp directory resolution. Supports the !join custom YAML tag used in fre-cli model yamls.

Re: investigating the fre-cli yaml combiner — I examined the CMORYaml class in fre/yamltools/info_parsers/cmor_info_parser.py and the ESM4 test yamls. The old approach had a multi-step class pipeline (combine_model → combine_experiment → merge_cmor_yaml → clean_yaml) that merged model, grids, pp settings, and cmor yamls via string concatenation. The new load_model_yaml does the minimal work needed: find paths, resolve anchors, return the cmor section with name/platform/target.